Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-06
ATTEMPTED TRAIN WRECK
. r,spd oostruot' the Northern racine
Track Near Garrison But the
Train Timely Saved.
o,,,,tv Wretch is Caught in the Act
and Barely Escapes Lynchfng-
Now in Jail.
....,np,sd Train Wreck.

.,,soN. NJ. T., July 1.-[Speeial to
rSa Miner.l-An attempt was made to
Ips .he Northern Pacific train last night.
: o ' .he arrival OF train No. 8 from Butte
or;ld unkept looking man descended
The coach. He looked as though he
no" been roughly handled which
DSu explained to me by the brakenen
NV laid he had insisted on making himself
'p0.aral nuisance on the train, singing OBJ
songs, swearing and otherwise reuder-
e'h;mself Objectionable, some OF the force
n be used to quiet him. He was ap-
n...,v under the influence OF liquor.
demonstrated with and force
applied to restain him, he became
,-:ous and vowed revenge, even stating
.s.t he would wreck the west bound train.
u"t while keeping a general lookout for
,;n they hardly took any stock in his
threats.
CAUGHT A swIrCHER.
About 10 p. M, IAN unusual hour,) the
yortbern Pacific switch engine had to 90
Lawn to Lloyd. about one mile west Of US,
~ take water from the tank. On passing
''., o anal trestle bridga about 200 yards
..m the Garrison depot, the engine ap-
.-.d 70 run over somes slight obstruction,
pa.t;ng the standing board off the front
=. Tho engine. They did not stop at the
.;ne To exami' g the cause, but returning
mau showed up. approaching the bridge, a
living signal being given at the same
,;me from the first switch post by a switch
.n who suspscting wrong had
~',r.d down to the bridge, and there found
A.. and rocks thrown promlscuously
" the track, some Of the ties being
Ia no,veen the timbers OF the bridge.
- unable to move them, aud the ap-
..,,;no engine damaged the other stand
II, hoard on which one swltchman was
standing and
THREW HIM INTO THE DITCH
hs,ore it could quite stop. The switchman
.hr. thrown on crawling out OF the ditch
oh.srved a man skulking in some willows
hard by. He and a companion I'M
.od;atelv gave chase and cOllared this
80 man who had before threatened dire
a..trn .tiou. understand they gave him
,;oco n their minds then and there, and
,hsr brought him in. He was a wild.look.
IN, specimen; apparently a Polander. He
,.ve his name as Herman Lassen. The
railroad employees were
,,rcu ,NcENsEp AGAINST BIM,
.,d;t WAS thought best to turn him over to
.bs Sheriff at once. Lew Coleman came up
n, @ snecial train and carried him of. Had
the switch engine had a COW catcher ahead
;nstead of a switch board, it is probable it
might have been thrown from the track;
Init the breadth OF the switch board swept
everything in front of it and pushed the
ties along the track, for the devilish work
WAS not completed when they first struck
IL, II is hard to say what damage might
have been inflicted on the passenger train.
In any event
THE INTENTION TO DESTROY
was the same and with the brutal charac-
t~eistics Of the socialist. The fiend would
have hurled women and children to
destruction togratify his cursed spirit OF
revenge. For a chastisement, mild in COM
psrison With his deserts, the fiend was
taken in official charge by Warden Nc
Tagus and lodged in jail at Deer Lodge.
The company will make an example OF him.
he will DO prosecuted to the limit OF the
Law